Ett nytt nummer av Dave Langfords Ansible är ute. Newszinet som ofta försöker
hitta de udda, roliga nyheterna... Mycket nyheter är redan upptagna på listan,
men jag saxar en del:
* It seems that 2 January 2018 is a highly appropriate Ansible publication day
for our US readers: 'National Science Fiction Day is celebrated annually on
January 2nd by millions of science fiction fans across the United States.'
* Arthur C. Clarke's 100th birthday on Saturday 16 December was noted by
various newspapers, with the Grauniad celebrating it several days early.
Crossword-setter and sf fan 'Phi' marked the occasion with a Clarke-themed
puzzle whose solvers had to construct and spot the missing term in the sequence
MMXMMLXIMMMI
* Bill Finger (1914-1974), uncredited during his lifetime as co-creator of
Batman, was immortalized on 8 December by the renaming of East 192nd Street in
the Bronx, New York, as Bill Finger Way.
* Frank Herbert looks likely to be honoured in his home town of Tacoma,
Washington – assuming the final decision this month goes as expected – with
part of a new park being called the Dune Peninsula, featuring the Frank Herbert
Trail. (News Tribune, 7 December)
* Liz Williams feels even more than usually doomed: 'my novella [Phosphorus]
has been printed, but in being delivered by courier to my publisher, all the
copies have gone missing. But it turns out they have been accidentally
kidnapped by the United States Air Force, in that they were mistakenly
delivered to an airbase instead of my publisher and someone who now cannot be
traced signed for them. / Ian [Whates] can't just rock up at an airbase and
demand a load of books set on Mars because he'll be shot or sent to Area 51 or
something, so the courier now has to sort this out on Tuesday. / Why does this
sort of thing always happen to me? Don't answer that.'
* Awards. New Year's Honours 2018. Michael Morpurgo, noted author of children's
fiction including some fantasy, was knighted; so was Ringo Starr, whose genre
credits include Help! (1965), Son of Dracula (1974) and voice work in the
galaxy-spanning Thomas the Tank Engine franchise. Hugh Laurie, now a CBE, has
also played occasional sf roles – not only in the various alternate histories
of Blackadder. /Tja, Help kanske kan ses som sf!/
* Court Circular. The Lexis-Nexis Top 10 Copyright Rulings of 2017 include the
decision in favour of publishers and literary estates in the suit against
Fredrik Colting and his Moppet Books, whose KinderGuides were abridged
children's versions of copyright texts (among them Arthur C. Clarke's 2001)
with brief study notes. As District Judge Jed Rakoff put it: 'Fair use ... is
not a jacket to be worn over an otherwise infringing outfit. One cannot add a
bit of commentary to convert an unauthorized derivative work into a protectable
publication.'
* As Anthologists Saw Us. 'Ten years ago, a collection such as this would have
been a collection of technological nightmares – crazy robots, poisoned
wastelands, megalomaniac computers, fiendish subliminal advertising techniques,
mega-death dealing microbes and warheads. [...] Today these nightmares are no
longer the preserve of the science fiction writers. They are part of our daily
lives.' (Anthony Cheetham introducing his Science Against Man, 1970)
* Kelly Abbott's app-based multi-genre fiction magazine Great Jones Street,
launched in 2016, closed down on 31 December – although 'Our catalog is for
sale, and there are some interested buyers.' The app itself will also be for
sale.
* Tommy SIlverros dödsdatum var 24 november, meddelas: Tommy Silverros
(1961-2017), Swedish fan who was active in the Malmö sf group, comics and
Tolkien fandoms, and worked on the Helsinki Worldcon, died on 24 November aged
55.
* Leroy Kettle's collected fanzine writing from the 1970s and 1980s (including
the complete run of his poll-topping fanzine True Rat, with a few strategic
omissions to protect the guilty) is now available as True Rat: The Beast of
Leroy Kettle, edited by the indefatigable Rob Hansen. This is the latest of 25
free fandom-related ebooks downloadable from taff.org.uk/ebooks.php. If you
enjoy any of these, a contribution to TAFF is always welcomed. In response to
fan demand, all TAFF ebooks are now also available as PDF documents.
* TAFF: 2018 candidates (see taff.org.uk) are mercilessly interrogated in John
Purcell's third newsletter, posted in late December at
taff.org.uk/news/TaffNews03.pdf. /Och två av dem är svenskar. Men avstå från
röster på han av dem som stödjer fanfondsbedrägeri, som sagt./
* Det finns ett nytt nummer av SFJ-reds EAPAzine Intermission. Det är helt
tillåtet att distribuera dem utanför APAn, så densomär intresserad kan skicka
en rad.
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